The University of Tokyo

Newly developed chemical catalyst system:
The new artificial catalyst system developed in the study, named the Synthetic Chromatin Acetylation (SynCAc) system, does not rely on enzymes for the critical chemical modification—known as acetylation—of chromatin.

A Kyoto research team has demonstrated that chimps can grasp the ‘circularity’ that characterizes rock-paper-scissors, and play the game at the same level as young human children. Tetsuro Matsuzawa, renowned for his work in demonstrating cognitive abilities in chimpanzees, worked together with Jie Gao of Kyoto and Peking University. Their study, based on data gathered separately from studies of chimps and preschoolers, appeared recently in the journal Primates. Read more in external link